This course provides an in-depth overview of industry accepted reliability calculation metrics and how they can be leveraged to improve overall system health and pinpoint areas of poor performance. The course will utilize the formal standards, ‘IEEE 1366-2022 Guide for Electric Power Distribution Reliability Indices’ and ‘IEEE 1782-2022 Guide for Collecting, Categorizing, and Utilizing Information Related to Electric Power Distribution Interruption Events’, to walkthrough calculations, identify critical datapoints to collect, and apply analysis techniques to establish a complete picture of performance.
We will identify primary outage causes at a system and circuit level and then explore techniques for improvement that focus on each unique cause. Improvement plans will be tied back to their resource and budget requirements to balance improvement versus investment costs. As part of the course, we will establish and calculate a Reliability Index that combines multiple measures to rank feeders into performance quartiles. The course will finish on how distributed resources, such as microgrids and EV batteries, can positively impact reliability.
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